Method and device for surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection

ABSTRACT

The disclosure pertains to the field of exploration based on electromagnetic method, and in particular relates to a method and device for surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection, aiming at solving the problem that the loop source device cannot effectively detect the high-resistance layer. The device according to the disclosure includes grounded conductor wires as emission sources and underground receiving devices as receiving sources; wherein the grounded conductor wires are arranged on the ground; an existing borehole on the ground or an existing underground roadway is used, and receiving probes are arranged point by point in the borehole direction or in the horizontal direction of the roadway; the grounded conductor wires are composed of three sets of grounded conductor wires, wherein two sets of the grounded conductor wires are arranged in parallel with each other and perpendicular to the third set of the grounded conductor wires.

FIELD

The present disclosure pertains to the field of exploration based onelectromagnetic method, and in particular relates to a method and devicefor surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection.

BACKGROUND

The transient electromagnetic method (referred to as TEM for short) is atime-domain artificial source electromagnetic detection method which isestablished based on the principle of electromagnetic induction. It usesan ungrounded loop or a grounded conductor wire to emit a primary fieldunderground. After the primary field is shut down, a variation ofinduced secondary field, generated by underground medium, with time ismeasured so as to achieve a geophysical exploration method for findingvarious geological targets.

FIG. 1 shows a diagram of a working device in the conventional transientelectromagnetic method using a ground surface loop source, in which acentral loop device is used more frequently, that is, a loop Tx isarranged on the ground surface, and measurement is performed at thecenter point Rx of the loop. Since this device is very simple and iseasy to interpret, it has received widespread applications.

However, when receiving is performed on the ground surface, theelectromagnetic field has to propagate from an anomaly position to aground surface receiving device so that it can be collected. Both thetime and travel of the propagation of the electromagnetic field arelong, and they may be easily affected by the inhomogeneous substancesbetween the emission source and the receiving device. If the receivingcan be realized at a position near the anomaly target body underground,the time and travel of the propagation of the electromagnetic field willbe relatively short, the effects of the inhomogeneous substances betweenthe emission source and the receiving device can be avoided to thegreatest extent possible, and the maximum anomaly value can be observed,thus greatly improving the ability of target body detection.

In the conventional surface-borehole transient electromagnetic method,an ungrounded coil, which serves as an emission source Tx, is arrangedon the ground surface near the borehole, and a magnetic probe is used asthe receiving device Rx which measures the induced secondary fieldgenerated by the underground medium point by point in the direction ofthe borehole. The method principle thereof is illustrated in FIG. 2.

A bipolar pulse current is supplied in an ungrounded loop so as toexcite an electromagnetic field. When excited by the electromagneticfield, an eddy current is generated by the underground medium as aresult of induction, and when the pulse current of the emission looptransitions from the peak value to zero, the excitation field disappearsimmediately, and the induced eddy current in the underground medium doesnot disappear immediately; instead, there is an attenuation process. Thecharacteristics of this process are related to the undergroundelectrical structure. By studying the spatial and temporal variationcharacteristics of the induced secondary field in the borehole, theobject of studying the distribution of electrical structure around theborehole can be achieved so that geological bodies beside the boreholeand near the bottom of the borehole can be distinguished with highaccuracy, or the spatial distribution and extending direction of theexposed ore body can be inferred.

In the surface-borehole TEM measurement, the observed characteristics ofthe surface-borehole TEM response curve are, on one hand, dependent onthe conductivity and geometric forms of the conductive ore body, and onthe other hand, they are relevant to the mutual positions of theemission loop, the conductor and the receiving probe. During practicaloperation, when there is insufficient data to accurately locate theanomaly bodies, a plurality of emission loops can be arranged atdifferent orientations on the ground surface, such as Tx1˜Tx5 as shownin FIG. 3, wherein ZK is a borehole. When each loop is excited, a probeis used in the borehole to perform measurement so as to obtain responsecurves with different characteristics. As such, more abundantgeoelectrical information is obtained, which is helpful for thequalitative and quantitative interpretation of the anomaly bodies.

Since the fields have a cancelling-out effect on each other due to thesymmetry of the loop source, energy is attenuated quickly in thestratum, the depth of detection is shallow, and it is difficult to laythe loop source when the side length is large. The loop source can onlyproduce a tangential electric field component, making it easy to excitethe induction current in the low resistance layer, which is veryadvantageous for detecting the low-resistance layer. However, fordetecting the high-resistance layer, the loop source is not the bestform of device.

SUMMARY

In order to solve the above problem in the prior art, namely to solvethe problem that the loop source device cannot effectively detect thehigh-resistance layer, an aspect of the present disclosure proposes adevice for surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection, whichincludes emission sources and receiving devices, wherein the emissionsources are emission wires arranged on the ground surface;

wherein the receiving devices are arranged underground point by point ina vertical direction or horizontal direction.

Further, the emission wires are three sets of grounded conductor wires,wherein two sets of the grounded conductor wires are arranged inparallel with each other and perpendicular to the third set of thegrounded conductor wires.

Further, the emission wires are grounded conductor wires having adual-square shape.

Further, the receiving devices are arranged underground point by pointin the vertical direction in a vertical shaft, or the receiving devicesare arranged point by point in the horizontal direction in a horizontalroadway.

Further, the receiving devices are located directly below an areasurrounded by the emission wires.

Further, the emission wires excite an electromagnetic field undergroundthrough a bipolar rectangular pulse current.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a method forsurface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection is proposed, whichis based on the above described device for surface-borehole transientelectromagnetic detection, wherein the apparent resistivity p iscalculated using the following formula:

$\rho = \frac{\mu}{4\; t\;\tau^{2}}$

wherein

μ is a relative magnetic permeability;

t is a sampling delay;

τ is calculated using the following formula:

$\frac{\partial\; h}{\partial\; t} = {\frac{a^{2}}{\sqrt{\pi\; t}}{\tau^{3}\lbrack e^{- {({a^{2} + z_{0}^{2}})}} \rbrack}^{\tau^{2}}}$

h is the intensity of magnetic field;

$\frac{\partial\; h}{\partial\; t}$is a known observed value;

z₀ is a vertical distance from the emission wire to the receivingdevice;

e is a natural constant;

a is a radius of circular loop, or a side length of rectangular loop, orthe maximum value of a is approximately r; r is a straight-line distancefrom a center point of the emission wires on the ground surface to aposition of the receiving device in the vertical shaft, when thereceiving devices are arranged underground point by point in thevertical direction in the vertical shaft; and r is a distance from acenter point of the emission wires on the ground surface to a horizontalplane in which the receiving devices are located, when the receivingdevices are arranged in the horizontal direction point by point in theunderground roadway.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a storage deviceis proposed, in which a plurality of programs are stored, the programsbeing adapted to be loaded and executed by a processor so as toimplement the above described method for surface-borehole transientelectromagnetic detection.

According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, a processingdevice is proposed, including:

a processor which is adapted to execute a plurality of programs; and

a storage device which is adapted to store a plurality of programs;

wherein the programs are adapted to be loaded and executed by theprocessor so as to implement the above described method forsurface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection.

Through the method for surface-borehole transient electromagneticdetection of the present disclosure, the electric field generated by thegrounded conductor wires intersects with the stratum having differentresistivity values, the induction current excited by the horizontalcomponent is advantageous for the detection of the low-resistance body,and the charges induced by the vertical component in the electricinterface of the stratum are advantageous for the detection of thehigh-resistance body. All the six components of the electromagneticfield in an orthogonal coordinate system have detection capabilities.The present disclosure provides more possibilities for the principle andmethod of information detection and extraction of deep large-scale oredeposits; the arrangement of long conductor wires not only exhibitsgreater flexibility, but also is advantageous for the detection ofhigh-resistance target body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a working device of a conventional loopsource transient electromagnetic method;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating the principle ofsurface-borehole transient electromagnetic method;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the surface-boreholetransient electromagnetic operation;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a device for surface-borehole(vertical) transient electromagnetic detection according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a device for loop sourcesurface-roadway transient electromagnetic measurement according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a device for surface-borehole(horizontal) transient electromagnetic detection according to anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a histogram of the borehole of a mining area according to anexample of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a device for transient electromagneticdetection according to an example of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a curve of actual measurement at No. 5 measurement pointaccording to an example of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10A is a sectional view of the apparent resistivity according to anexample of the present disclosure.

FIG. 10B is a sectional view of the apparent resistivity according to anexample of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure will be described belowwith reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood bythose skilled in the art that these embodiments are only used to explainthe technical principle of the present disclosure, and are not intendedto limit the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

A device for surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detectionaccording to an embodiment of the disclosure includes emission sourcesand receiving devices, wherein the emission sources are emission wiresarranged on the ground surface, and the receiving devices are arrangedunderground point by point in a vertical direction or horizontaldirection.

The emission wires are three sets of grounded conductor wires, whereintwo sets of the grounded conductor wires are arranged in parallel witheach other and perpendicular to the third set of the grounded conductorwires. The emission wires may also be grounded conductor wires having adual-square shape when the receiving space is a substantially horizontalcoal mine roadway or tunnel.

The device for surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detectionaccording to the present disclosure adopts a grounded source instead ofa loop source, that is, three sets of grounded conductor wires arearranged on the ground above the roadway as emission sources, and eachof the three sets of conductor wires is used to emit respectively.Probes are used to measure an induced secondary field generated by theunderground medium point by point along the direction of the roadwayunderground. A bipolar rectangular pulse current is supplied in thegrounded conductor wires to excite an electromagnetic field underground.When excited by the electromagnetic field, an eddy current is generatedby the underground medium as a result of induction, and when the pulsecurrent of the emission loop transitions from the peak value to zero,the excitation field disappears immediately, and the induced eddycurrent in the underground medium does not disappear immediately;instead, there is an attenuation process. The characteristics of thisprocess are related to the distribution of the underground electricalstructure. By studying the spatial and temporal variationcharacteristics of the induced secondary field in the borehole, theobject of studying the distribution of electrical structure around theroadway can be achieved so that the spatial distribution and extendingdirection of the target body can be inferred.

In order to describe the technical solutions of the present disclosuremore clearly, the device and method for surface-borehole transientelectromagnetic detection according to embodiments of the disclosurewill be described below with reference to different conditions.

1. the receiving devices being placed in the borehole in the verticaldirection.

As shown in FIG. 4, the grounded conductor wires are arranged on theground surface; the grounded conductor wires are composed of three setsof grounded conductor wires AB, wherein two sets of them are parallelwith each other and are perpendicular to a third set. An existingborehole on the ground surface is used, and the receiving devices arearranged point by point in the borehole along the direction of theborehole (receiving probes are used in this embodiment). The length ofthe grounded conductor wires is 800 meters to 1500 meters. The emissionsource (the grounded conductor wire) has an emission power of 30kilowatts. In this embodiment, the receiving probes can be placed pointby point in a vertical shaft in the vertical direction, and the boreholein the vertical direction can be used as one of the vertical shafts inthe disclosure.

When the receiving space is a substantially horizontal coal mine roadwayor tunnel, the conventional surface-borehole observation equipmentbecomes what is shown in FIG. 5. That is, a larger coil is placed on theground surface to increase the power supply current for the purpose ofensuring the depth of detection. Receiving probes are arranged in theextending direction of the roadway at different depths in the borehole,and detection signals are received. The reception signals are strongwhen the receiving probes are closer to the target body, and theresolution and detection accuracy can be improved, thus enhancing“side-viewing” ability. Meanwhile, a relative position of the emissioncoil on the ground and the receiving coil in the roadway is changed or anormal direction of the receiving coil is changed so as to facilitatedetection of multi-layer gob area.

2. the receiving devices being placed in the roadway in the horizontaldirection.

Likewise, since the fields have a cancelling-out effect on each otherdue to the symmetry of the loop source, the energy is attenuated quicklyin the stratum, the depth of detection is shallow, and it is difficultto lay the loop source when the side length is large. The loop sourcecan only produce a tangential electric field component, making it easyto excite the induction current in the low-resistance layer, which isvery advantageous for detecting the low-resistance layer. However, fordetecting the high-resistance layer, the loop source is not the bestform of device.

As shown in FIG. 6, grounded conductor wires are arranged on the groundsurface; the grounded conductor wires are composed of three sets ofgrounded conductor wires AB, wherein two sets of them are parallel witheach other and are perpendicular to a third set. An existing roadway onthe ground surface is used, and a plurality of receiving probes arearranged point by point in the roadway in the horizontal direction. Thelength of the grounded conductor wires is 800 meters to 1500 meters. Theemission source (the long grounded conductor wire) has an emission powerof 30 kilowatts.

The method for grounded source transient electromagnetic detectionaccording to the disclosure will be described with reference to thefollowing two embodiments.

1. calculation of the surface-borehole transient electromagneticapparent resistivity.

For the surface-borehole and surface-roadway device, the conventionalformula for the calculation of the ground apparent resistivity no longerapplies.

For a circular loop, when the receiving point is located directly belowthe center of the emission coil, i.e., when the coordinate of thereceiving point is (0, 0, z0),

$\begin{matrix}{\frac{\partial h}{\partial t} = {\frac{\tau^{3}}{\sqrt{\pi\; t}}a^{2}e^{- {\tau^{2}{({a^{2} + z_{0}^{2}})}}}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

wherein

${\tau = ( \frac{\mu\;\sigma}{4\; t} )^{1/2}},$h is the intensity of magnetic field, t is a sampling delay, a is aradius of circular loop, σ is conductivity, and μ is a relative magneticpermeability. Then, the apparent resistivity can be expressed as:

$\begin{matrix}{\rho = \frac{\mu}{4\; t\;\tau^{2}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$

wherein μ is a relative magnetic permeability and t is a sampling delay.

Formula (1) can be expressed as a function of parameter:

$\begin{matrix}{\frac{\partial h}{\partial t} = {\frac{a^{2}}{\sqrt{\pi\; t}}{Y(\tau)}}} & (3)\end{matrix}$

wherein h is the intensity of magnetic field, and Y(τ) is calculatedusing formula (4):Y(τ)=τ³[e ^(−(a) ² ^(+z) ⁰ ² ⁾]^(τ) ²   (4)

wherein z₀ is a vertical distance from the emission wire to thereceiving device, and e is a natural constant.

Therefore, the apparent resistivity defined by formula (2) can becalculated if the value of τ, which satisfies the formula (4), isobtained. During actual calculation, since

$\frac{\partial h}{\partial t}$is a known observed value, Y(τ) can be calculated using formula (3).Then, it is substituted into formula (4) to find the value of τ, andfurther the value of the apparent resistivity is obtained by usingformula (2).

For the grounded source conductor wires, a may be a radius of circularloop, or a side length of a rectangular loop, or the maximum value of ais approximately r.

r is a straight-line distance from a center point of the emission wireson the ground surface to a position of the receiving device in thevertical shaft.

2. calculation of the surface-roadway transient electromagnetic apparentresistivity.

The difference of the calculation of the surface-roadway transientelectromagnetic apparent resistivity from the calculation of thesurface-borehole transient electromagnetic apparent resistivity is thedefinition of r. Herein, the receiving devices are arranged point bypoint in an underground roadway in the horizontal direction, and r is adistance from a center point of the emission wires on the ground surfaceto a horizontal plane in which the receiving devices are located.

A storage device according to an embodiment of the disclosure isprovided, in which a plurality of programs are stored, the programsbeing adapted to be loaded and executed by a processor so as toimplement the above described method for surface-borehole transientelectromagnetic detection.

A processing device according to an embodiment of the disclosure isprovided, which includes a processor which is adapted to execute aplurality of programs; and a storage device which is adapted to store aplurality of programs, wherein the programs are adapted to be loaded andexecuted by the processor so as to implement the above described methodfor surface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that, for theconvenience and conciseness of the description, as to the specificworking process and related descriptions of the above-described storagedevice and processing device, reference may be made to the correspondingprocesses of the foregoing device and method embodiments, and a repeateddescription is not given herein.

For description of the technical effects of the disclosure, practicalexamples will be described below.

1. Geological Overview

A coal mine in Shanxi Province is located within the Pingshuo miningarea on the eastern edge of the northern part of the Ningwu coalfield.Most of the earth's surface is covered by the Cenozoic Erathem and it isa typical loess hilly landform. From the bottom to the top, theOrdovician Shangmajiagou Formation, the Carboniferous Benxi Formation,the Carboniferous Taiyuan Formation, the Permian Shanxi Formation, theLower Shihezi Formation, and the mid and late Pleistocene of theCenozoic Erathem are developed in this coalfield, as shown in FIG. 7.The main coal-bearing stratum is the Carboniferous Taiyuan Formationwith a total of 4 recoverable coal seams, which are coal seams NO. 4, 9,11 and 12 in an order from top to bottom. The top of the No. 4 coal seamis sandstone, and a sandstone and mudstone interbed is located betweenthe No. 4 and No. 9 coal seam with a seam spacing of about 60 m. Belowthe No. 9 coal seam is a sandstone and mudstone interbed, and the bottomof the No. 9 coal seam is 80 m away from the top boundary of theOrdovician limestone. The experimental site is located at 9103 workingsurface, with a surface elevation of approximately 1350 m. The workingsurface has a peripheral length length of 610 m, and a diagonal lengthof 200 m. The No. 9 coal seam is mined with a coal seam tilt of 6° to 7°and an inclination of 127°. The coal seam bottom at the northwestorientation of the working surface has an elevation of 1080 m, and 1020m at the southeast orientation. According to existing data, the workingsurface is overlaid with No. 4 coal seam, and the floor of the coal seamhas a height of 1080-1140 m. It has been partially mined empty. Thetransportation road and the air returning road of the No. 4 mining areadiagonally pass through the working surface from above respectively.

2. Working Process

As shown in FIG. 8, a measurement line is arranged on the transport roadof the 9103 working surface, with the position of gob area being known.The floor of the roadway has an elevation of 1020 m to 1030 m, and thestart point is located at the opening of the transport road. 16measurement points are arranged with a spacing of 20 m, whichcorresponds to the measurement points in the underground roadway. Thereare also 16 measurement points at the same positions on the groundsurface with a spacing of 20 m. There are known gob areas at the firstand second measurement points and measurement points 7-12. It is to benoted that when the measurement points are arranged, the measurementstandards must be strictly followed so as to ensure the coincidence ofmeasurement points on the ground surface and underground in the planeposition. During the specific construction, taking into account aconvenient arrangement of the emission coil, the actual side length ofthe emission coil is 600 m. The measurement lines both on the ground andin the underground roadway are located on the center line of theemission coil. An electrical prospecting instrument GDP-32 is used, thefrequency is set at 16 Hz, the earliest sampling delay is 0.0609 ms, thelatest sampling delay is 12.204 ms, the emission current is 13A, theoff-time is set to be 600 s, and the equivalent receiving area of thereceiving probe is 10000 m². In practical operation, the same set oftransmitters are used to emit, and two sets of receivers arerespectively used to receive on the ground and in the undergroundroadway simultaneously.

3. Result of Detection

The measurement points on the ground and underground are coincident inthe plane position. FIG. 9 shows a curve of the actually measuredinduced electromotive force and a curve of the apparent resistivitycurve at No. 5 measurement point. The stratum is complete at thismeasurement point and there in no gob area. The solid point is thedownhole measurement data, and the hollow point is the groundmeasurement data. FIG. 9(a) is a current curve of the actually measuredinduced electromotive force, and FIG. 9(b) is a curve of the actuallymeasured apparent resistivity. During the detection, the estimation onthe off-time was inaccurate. The instrument parameters were set to be600 s, and the actual off-time was about 300 μs. As a result, no earlydata was collected. Therefore, the downhole data does not exhibit atrend of ascending first and descending later. From the curve of theinduced electromotive force, the ground data and downhole data graduallyconverge after 1 ms. The quality of the downhole data is slightly worsethan that of the ground data, and there is a jump. For the calculationof ground apparent resistivity, the conventional formula for calculatingthe apparent resistivity of the center loop is still used, and nooblique transition wave correction is performed. Therefore, the earlydata deformity is serious and approaches 1000 Ωm, which does not complywith the actual apparent resistivity value. For the calculation ofdownhole apparent resistivity, the calculation method proposed in theprevious section is used. From a comparison between the curves ofapparent resistivity, except for the early data, the variation forms ofthe curves are substantially consistent, beginning from about 500 μs.The curves of ground apparent resistivity and underground apparentresistivity substantially coincide, and exhibit substantially uniformelectrical reflection of the stratum.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the actually measured apparentresistivity, wherein FIG. 10A shows a result of ground surfacedetection, and FIG. 10B shows a result of surface-roadway detection. Theresult of ground surface detection basically reflects the trend ofelectrical variation (high→low→high) of the stratum in the detectionarea. The isolines of apparent resistivity contour in the transversedirection are smooth and continuous, with no obvious electricaltransitions. There is no obvious low resistance anomaly in the two wateraccumulating gob areas of No. 4 coal seam. The result of surface-roadwaydetection shows that there is no trend of obvious electrical variationof the stratum in the longitudinal direction, but the electricalvariation in the transverse direction is obvious. There is obvious lowresistance anomaly in each of the two water accumulating gob areas. Theground surface is about 260 m away from No. 4 coal seam. The roadway inwhich the underground receiver is located is about 60 m away from No. 4coal seam. Because of the proximity to the anomalous body, thesurface-roadway is much better than the ground surface in terms of thedetection effect of the two water accumulating gob areas of No. 4 coalseam. It can also be seen from the detection results that thedetermination of the transverse position of the low-resistance anomalybody by the surface-roadway is relatively accurate, but the distributionrange of the low-resistance area in the longitudinal direction isrelatively large, and it is difficult to accurately locate the depthposition of anomaly.

It can be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the methods ofvarious examples described with reference to the embodiments disclosedherein can be implemented with electronic hardware, computer software,or a combination thereof. In order to clearly illustrate theinterchangeability of electronic hardware and software, the componentsand steps of the examples have been generally described in terms offunctionality in the above description. Whether these functions areimplemented in electronic hardware or software depends on the specificapplication of the technical solution and design constraints. Thoseskilled in the art can use different methods to implement the describedfunctions for each specific application, but such implementations shouldnot be construed as going beyond the scope of the present disclosure.

Hitherto, the technical solutions of the present disclosure have beendescribed with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in theaccompanying drawings. However, it can be easily understood by thoseskilled in the art that the scope of protection of the presentdisclosure is obviously not limited to these specific embodiments. Thoseskilled in the art can make equivalent changes or replacements to therelated technical features without departing from the principle of thepresent disclosure, and the technical solutions after these changes orreplacements will fall within the scope of protection of the presentdisclosure.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for surface-borehole transientelectromagnetic detection, the method being based on a device forsurface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection, wherein the devicecomprises emission sources and receiving devices, wherein the emissionsources are emission wires arranged on the ground surface; and whereinthe receiving devices are arranged underground point by point in avertical direction or horizontal direction, and wherein the emissionwires are three sets of grounded conductor wires, wherein two sets ofthe grounded conductor wires are arranged in parallel with each otherand perpendicular to the third set of the grounded conductor wires,wherein the method comprises the following steps: energizing theemission wires with a bipolar rectangular pulse current to excite anelectromagnetic field underground; obtaining observed value of thereceiving devices; calculating apparent resistivity based on theobserved value using the following formula:$\rho = \frac{\mu}{4\; t\;\tau^{2}}$ Wherein μ is a relative magneticpermeability; t is a sampling delay; τ is calculated using the followingformula:$\frac{\partial h}{\partial t} = {\frac{a^{2}}{\sqrt{\pi\; t}}{\tau^{3}\lbrack e^{- {({a^{2} + z_{0}^{2}})}} \rbrack}^{\tau^{2}}}$h is the intensity of magnetic field; $\frac{\partial h}{\partial t}$ isthe observed value of the receiving devices; z_(o) is a verticaldistance from the emission wire to the receiving device; e is a naturalconstant; the maximum value of a is approximately r; r is astraight-line distance from a center point of the emission wires on theground to a position of the receiving device in the vertical shaft, whenthe receiving devices are arranged underground point by point in thevertical direction in the vertical shaft; and r is a distance from acenter point of the emission wires on the ground to a horizontal planein which the receiving devices are located, when the receiving devicesare arranged in the horizontal direction point by point in theunderground roadway.
 2. A storage device, in which a plurality ofprograms are stored, the programs being adapted to be loaded andexecuted by a processor so as to implement the method forsurface-borehole transient electromagnetic detection according to claim1.